Towards An
Empowered System
An Empowered System
Purpose
• Focus on empowering schools
• Reflect on your role in an empowered system
• Provide feedback on the empowered system
guidance
An Empowered System
An Empowered System
An empowered system grows stronger and more confident, working in
partnership to lead learning and teaching that achieves excellence
and equity for all learners. Empowerment and collaboration for
improvement happen at all levels of the system.
An Empowered System
Discuss
What does ‘empowerment’ mean to you?
Individually write down your thoughts on what
empowerment means to you (for 2 minutes).
Share your ideas with a partner (6 minutes).
An Empowered System
Jigsaw
The jigsaw reflects eight key
partners who work together
in an empowered system to
improve outcomes for
children and young people.
An Empowered System
Discussion
• Choose which of the guidance documents
is most relevant to you in your context.
What?
• To what extent does the guidance reflect
your ideas about empowerment in your
context? So what?
• As a group agree which areas you feel are
the two most important positive aspects Now what?
and two areas where you still have
concerns or questions.
• Then offer suggestions for the now what?,
what do the steering group need to take into
account.
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Engagement
• Guidance sections currently published as agreed drafts.
• Engagement phase throughout 2019/20 session
• Final publication of guidance June 2020
• Feedback on draft guidance can be submitted through
Education Scotland’s National Improvement Hub:
• https://
education.gov.scot/improvement/learning-resources/an-emp
owered-system
An Empowered System